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Saturday, October 29th, 2005 at 04:19 AM
We’re excited to announce that we have two lovely new releases on the way. The first is Cryptomnesia from Radiant Darling. We’re quite pleased to welcome Radiant Darling to Tense Forms. Cryptomnesia will be available November 1st from the Tense Forms store. Stop by now to preview a couple of songs!
Our second coming release is Uh-Oh from the Notes and Scratches. For a limited time you can download four free songs from the Tense Forms store! The album arrives on November 18th.
Monday, October 17th, 2005 at 04:55 PM
Join us for the 2nd Annual Culture of Fear this Saturday, October 22nd, 8:00 PM at Open End Gallery. Tense Forms and Scary Bodega present an evening of film, art, and music featuring Chris Fuller’s score for Nosferatu, pre-show music by Annie Coleman, a short film by Kate Raney, photography and paintings by Kirk Bravender and Kelly Reynolds, music by the Notes and Scratches and DJ sets by C. Israel Vines and Marcus Battista. $6 donation. BYOB. Costumes are highly encouraged—this is a Macabre Ball my pretties! Doors at 8pm, films at 9pm and music at 11pm.
Sunday, October 02nd, 2005 at 01:30 PM
Chicago’s Nat Kundanis-Grow kicks off Muted Tones volume 4 to a rocking start with “The Ballad of Bobby Fitz”. Listen now on Tense Radio or visit the site to download. Then subscribe to our Muted Tones Podcast or RSS feed to keep updated!
Thursday, September 08th, 2005 at 10:54 PM
Those of you that subscribe to our iCalendar will want to know that it has moved and improved. Click here to subscribe to the new iCalendar. Unlike our old calendar, which was only updated a couple of times a week, this new calendar is always up to date.
For those that don’t know, iCalendar is an excellent open calendar format that’s supported by many applications including iCal, Outlook, Sunbird, and Mozilla Calendar. Thanks go to DreamHost for being one of the few web hosts to support WebDav, a technology that lets you publish and subscribe to calendars over the web.
Thursday, September 01st, 2005 at 11:26 AM
This month marks the beginning of Muted Tones volume 4. Stop by the site to take a look at the roster, and while you’re there, subscribe to our new Podcast. You won’t find anything to download just yet, but our Podcast will ensure you get every month’s piece as soon as they’re available!
Monday, August 15th, 2005 at 05:26 PM
Pardon the mess! We’ve switched servers to DreamHost this weekend. Most things should be back to normal now but you may find a quirk here and there. Don’t hesitate to let us know!
We were quite happy with our old host, 8-95.com, and I would still recommend them to anyone, especially if you have a smaller site. We have a ton of songs on our servers though, and we go through quite a bit of bandwidth at times. With DreamHost’s current specials, they’re a much better fit for our needs.
DreamHost also has some great referral programs. If you sign up there and enter the promo code 25TO50OFF, you’ll get $25 off if you pay monthly, or $50 if you pay a year in advance. Even better, a bit of your payment will be donated to Tense Forms. You save money, we save money, everybody wins!
Thursday, June 16th, 2005 at 09:36 PM
Our big summer art, music, film, and dance party is coming up on Saturday, July 2nd! Just $8 for a full evening with 5 bands, 3 poets, 2 filmmakers, and 17 visual artists. Get all the details on the Tense Forms Summer Showcase here.
Monday, May 02nd, 2005 at 11:50 PM
The Treatment has a new 7” EP called Rich Man Dreams, now available in our store. If you buy the 7” for just four dollars, you get two songs on vinyl, along with MP3s of those songs and two bonus tracks. If you prefer you can just buy all four MP3s at half the price. Drop by the store to get it now!
Monday, May 02nd, 2005 at 11:44 PM
A reprint of 100 Lakes, a book by Craig Blakeman, is now available in our store. This book compiles 100 photographs of Lake Michigan taken from early January to early June 2004. One photo was taken from the same spot, looking the same direction, at the same time each day. The cover of this printing is handprinted in violet ink and handbound in charcoal paper using glue and twine.
Sunday, April 03rd, 2005 at 08:27 PM
We now have Tense Forms t-shirts available at the store. They’re charcoal American Apparel shirts, with the Tense Forms logo subtly hand-printed in rust-colored ink.
In addition, all of our music releases are now available in MP3-only format at half the price. Of course if you like, you can still buy the physical release and download it in MP3 format as a free bonus.
You’ll also find some subtle changes throughout the store and the main site. You can now search the store, and we’ve made downloading the songs you’ve purchased much easier. Finally, there’s a new font-size switcher in the upper-right corner, if you’d like to view the site with larger text.